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Just Like the Ones He Used to Know: Part II
This is the second installment of Robert J. Wiersema’s holiday tale of the ghostly and the miraculous, written exclusively for [email protected] and appearing every day until Christmas Eve. Wiersema is the author of the national bestseller Before I Wake and the novella The World More Full of Weeping.
“It’s gonna be a rough night.”
The voice startled Dustin, and he glanced up toward the front of the bus. His forehead was damp from where he had been pressing it against the window, watching the snow.
It took him a moment to put it together: the bus driver. That must have been him talking. And he must have been talking to Dustin: he had been the only person on the bus since Abbotsford, more than an hour before.
“I’m sorry, what?” he said loudly. He was only a few rows back, but the roar of the engine seemed to swallow up all other sound.